PRESENTATION COPY. 139 HERRICK (Robert).-HESPERIDES OR THE WORKS BOTH HUMANB AND DIVINE. . . . London, Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Crown and Marygold in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1648-47. FIRST EDITION, the 2 parts in one vol, 8vo, WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSION OF THE ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE, WITH PORTRAIT BY WILLIAM MARSHALL (early owners' names on back), a few paginations very slightly cut into, BUT A FINE LARGE COPY (61 by 4 inches), contemporary calf, gold fillet on sides with a flower ornament at each corner and ornamental centre-piece, g.e., rebacked, £300 * EXCESSIVELY RARE AND A VERY INTERESTING PRESENTATION COPY, having been given by John Williams, Bookseller, of London, whose name is in the imprint, to his friend, Richard Hoare, with a five-line Latin inscription to that effect on the first fly-leaf, dated 1647, the date of the publication of the second part, "Noble Numbers." The names of other early owners occur on the fly-leaves, one on the blank verso of the last leaf. The difficulty of obtaining a perfect copy of Herrick at all has increased very much in recent years, and even then the portrait is almost always cut close. In the present copy it has a good margin. Mr. E. M. Cox writes: "If one might venture a bibliographical prophecy, it would be that Herrick's Hesperides' is a book which, in its first edition, will steadily gain interest and importance to the collector in the field of English literature to an extent which a very few years ago would have seemed impossible." 140 HEYWOOD (Thomas).—THE HIERARCHIE OF THE BLESSED ANGELLS, their Names, Orders and Offices. The fall of Lucifer with his Angells. London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1635. Sm. folio, engraved title by T. Cecill, and 9 full-page plates by W. Marshall, J. Payne, Droeshout, and others, blank margin of title restored, imprimatur leaf missing, slight water-stain at beginning, inner margin of last 2 leaves restored, name on dedication, and outer margin of one leaf mended, LARGE COPY, original calf, £6 46 The original edition of this rare didactic poem in nine books, with prose annotations. Dedicated to Charles I. and his Queen. The Author was the famous actor and dramatist and a contemporary of Shakespeare. In the fourth book is the interesting notice of XVIIth century English poets, including Melliflous Shakespeare, whose enchanting quill, commanded Mirth or Passion, was but Will." The last two books contain some remarkable Ghost Stories and Tales of Witches, among them Heywood's version of Macbeth, which, though taken from the same source as Shakespeare's Play, has curious variations, and represents Macbeth as slain by Malcolme, Duncan's son, and not by Macduff. 141 HOOPER (John, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester) A DECLARATION OF THE X. HOLYE COMMAUNDEMENTES OF ALMIGHTYE GOD, written Exo 20, Det. 5. Collectyd oute of the scripture Canonicall by John Hopper, Anno 1550. [London, Nicholas Hyll, 1550]. Sm. sq. 8vo, black letter, ornamental woodcut border to title, with the printer's initials N. H. at foot (unknown to McKerrow), FINE LARGE COPY, old calf, £20 *The only other copy recorded is that in the University Library, Cambridge. Hooper was the leader of the advanced section of the reformers, and although he was opposed to the attempt to set aside Mary in favour of Lady Jane Grey, he was, nevertheless, one of the first persons against whom proceedings were taken in her reign. He was sent to Gloucester for execution, and was burned at the stake there on 9 Feb., 1554-5. By his actions and writings he very effectively contributed to the popularising of extreme puritanic views of religion in England. Collation: A to O 4 in eights, o 4 a blank leaf. 142 [HEYWOOD (Thomas)] THE LIFE OF MERLIN, SIRNAMED AMBROSIVS. HIS PROPHESIES AND PREDICTIONS INTERPRETED, and their truth made good by our English Annalls. Being a Chronographical History of all the Kings, and memorable passages of this Kingdome, from Brute to the Reigne of our Royal Soveraigne King Charles. A Subject never published in this kind before, and deserves to be knowne and observed by all men. London, J. Okes, and are to be sold by J. Emery in Pauls Church-Yard, 1641. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, with frontispiece by Hollar, slight water-stain in places, large copy, with many lower margins uncut, original calf, rebacked, £14 46 *Charles Lamb says, Heywood is a prose Shakespeare, his scenes are to the full as natural and effective.' He is first mentioned in Henslowe's diary, and was regularly engaged by Henslowe as a member of his, the Lord Admiral's company. He was also for a time, one of the theatrical retainers of Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton. This work is the old fabulous history of Britain, continued down to the death of James I., the prophecies of Merlin (in verse), being recounted and interpreted along with the events which were supposed to realise them. 143 HISTORICAL REGISTER (THE), CONTAINING AN IMPARTIAL RELATION OF ALL TRANSACTIONS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTICK: with a Chronological Diary of all the Remarkable Occurrences that happened throughout the year. London, 1714-38. 25 vols, 8vo, titles numbered irregularly and corrected by a contemporary hand, some pages age-discoloured, old calf, worn, £20 * This work, very rarely found complete with all the 25 volumes, was published by the Sun Fire Office, to save their subscribers the expense of taking in a newspaper. It is sometimes adopted as a precursor to the Annual Register. Contains much matter relating to American affairs, including the cases of Charles, Lord Baltimore, with relation to his Government of Maryland, W. Penn, Proprietory Governor of Pennsylvania, the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and the Colony of Connecticut; Governor Shute's Speeches to the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay; Transactions in New England and New York in 1721; South Carolina and the Cherokee Indians; New York, Virginia, and the Indians of the Five Nations; New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the Indians in 1728 (22 pages); Massachusetts in 1728 (29 pages); Account of the Cherokee Indians and their country and the visit of several chiefs of the tribe to England in 1731 (18 pages); New England in 1730 (26 pages); trade dispute between the West Indies and the Northern American Colonies in 1731; South Sea Company; Treaty of Utrecht; Florida; Maryland; Bermuda; Jamaica; the founding of Georgia, &c. 144 [HOLLAND (Henry)].-HEROOLOGIA ANGLICA HOC EST CLARISSIMORVM ET DOCTISSIMORVM. Aliqovt Anglorum Qui Florvervnt Ab Anno Cristi. M.D. vsq. Ad Presentem Annvm M.D.CXX. Viuæ Effigies Vitæ et elogia Duobus tomis Authore. H. H. Anglo Britanno: Impensis Crispini Passai Calcographus et Jansonii Bibliopola Arnhemiensis. [Arnhem, 1620]. Sm. folio, fine engraved title with a medallion map of the British Isles and a bird's-eye view of London, and 63 (out of 65) beautifully engraved portraits and one monument (should have two), also wants the two leaves of "Post-Prefatio," leaf of verses by I. Gruterus, and List of Plates, outer margin of one leaf mended, large copy, half morocco, £10 * Brilliant impressions of this splendid series of English portraits, the first ever issued. Includes Henry VIII., Sir T. More, Cardinals Wolsey and Pole, Edward VI., Lady Jane Gray, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Henry, W. Herbert Earl of Pembroke, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Henry and Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Sir F. Walsingham, Sir Richard Grenville, Thomas Cavendish or Caudish, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, William Cecil Lord Burghley and his brother Robert, George Clifford Earl of Cumberland, Thomas Sutton (Founder of the Charterhouse), Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop M. Parker, John Bradford, Hugh Latimer, &c. Lométdauis par Brie enuoya des lettres a ioas No. 146. ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS. 145 HOLLYBAND (C., i.e., CLAUDE DESAINLIENS) THE FRENCH SCHOOLE MAISTER. Wherein is most plainely shewed the true and perfect way of pronouncing the French tongue, to the furtherance of all those which would gladly learne it. First collected by Mr. C. H. and since often corrected by diuers professors of the sayd tongue. London, Printed by T. P. for Tho. Knight, and are to be sould by Ephraim Dawson, at the signe of the Raine-bow, neere Temple-Barre, 1632. Sm. sq. 8vo, partly in black letter, English and French text opposite each other, REMARKABLY FINE COPY, WITH THE FIRST AND FINAL BLANK LEAVES, original limp vellum, remains of tie-strings, £20 ILLUMINATED BY THE FAMOUS MINIATURIST AND PUBLISHER, 146 HORE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS SECUNDUM VERUM VSUM ROMANUM TOTALITER AD LONGUM SIUE REQUIRE. Cum multis aliis suffragiis et orationibus de nouo additis. Nouiter impressis Parisius, per Germanum Hardouyn comorantem inter duas portas Palatii regis: ad intersignum Sancte Margarete. Et ibi venundentur, s.d. (1526). PRINTED ON VELLUM, 8vo (8 by 5 inches), lettres batardes, long lines, text in Latin, with a page or two in French, 17 LARGE woodcuts, CHIEFLY OF THE USUAL New Testament SCENES, 16 OF THEM WITHIN GOLD ARCHITECTURAL FRAME BORDERS, AND 26 SMALL WOODCUTS OF SAINTS, &c., THE WHOLE EXQUISITELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS BY GERMAIN HARDOUYN HIMSELF, WITH HIS SIGNATURE "G. H." IN THE LOWER FRAME BORDER OF FIVE OF THEM, IN ADDITION 158 PAGES ARE FINELY DECORATED WITH AN OUTER BORDER OF FLORAL, FRUIT, AND SCROLL WORK RICHLY PAINTED ON A MAT GOLD GROUND, together with a great quantity of large and small capitals, wants signature F8, BUT A REMARKABLY CHOICE LARGE COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS, IN THE FINEST POSSIBLE STATE OF PRESERVATION, elaborately bound in French red morocco, gilt bevelled edges with raised cover containing sunk quatrefoils each with a gold cross in the centre, surrounded by a geometrical design with lions rampant in gold, a similar design on the back, inside dentelles enclosing a doublure of green morocco, semée with gold lions rampant, gilt edges semée with gauffred crimson fleurs-de-lis, ornamental gilt clasps, by Despierres Rel. de l'Empereur (Napoleon III.), £110 * A MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE FEW SPECIAL COPIES OF BOOKS OF HOURS PUBLISHED BY GERMAIN HARDOUYN, AND ILLUMINATED BY HIMSELF. RENDERED STILL MORE VALUABLE AND ATTRACTIVE FROM THE CIRCUMSTANCE THAT FIVE OF THE LARGE MINIATURES ARE SIGNED WITH HIS INITIALS, WHICH, HITHERTO, WE HAVE NEVER MET WITH NOR HEARD OF. The woodcuts are so skilfully illuminated in opaque colouring that they can only be accounted original miniatures. [See Illustration.] |